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This dissertation examines multiple exponence (ME) phenomena in the non-inflectional morphology of three languages: Nuu-chah-nulth (Wakashan), Central Yup'ik (Eskimo), and Korean (language isolate or Altaic). These languages exhibit a common property: ME comprised of a non-inflectional suffix and one or more base modifications. The base modifications involve a vowel length change and reduplication in Nuu-chah-nulth, various types of deletion in Central Yup’ik, and vowel shortening in Korean. This dissertation pursues four research questions: (1) what criteria diagnose morphophonological alternations as ME and do the criteria apply to all cases of ME to the same degree? (2) Does derivational ME differ from inflectional ME? (3) Does one exponent play a more significant role in expressing semantic/syntactic information than another? (4) How is derivational ME formally accounted for? In pursuit of these research questions, this study proposes, based on Matthews’s (1972) study, four criteria to distinguish ME from other phonological alternations. Only the two criteria, Non-phonological condition and Consistent co-occurrence are obligatory; two others, Phonological Consistency and No exceptions on base selection, may be violated, suggesting that ME parameters occur along a continuum. This dissertation also proposes derivational classes according to patterns of base modification. Derivational classes play an important role in formulating Word Formation Rules (WFRs), in that they provide the morphological conditions for the structural description of base modification rules. Significantly, semantic/syntactic information is encoded in suffixation, capturing the fact that the large number of meanings that suffixes carry (approximately 500) cannot be mapped onto a limited number of base modifications (ranging from two to fourteen). The evidence that suffixes convey meaning supports the claim that ME requires two different types of WFR, a suffixation rule that conveys semantic/syntactic information, and base modification rules that do not. Also, this study suggests that suffixes are the main exponent of ME because they make the main contribution to the meanings conveyed through ME. This study contributes to a theory of morphology not only in that seemingly distinct processes receive a unified analysis as ME, but also in that the distinct processes are formally accounted for, expanding the WP approach to derivational morphology. / Graduate / 0290 / sung17hwa@gmail.com

Orientador: Luciani Ester Tenani / Banca: José Sueli Magalhães / Banca: Gladis Massini-Cagliari / Resumo: O presente trabalho descreve o comportamento variável das vogais postônicas nãofinais nos nomes na variedade da região de São José do Rio Preto, noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Neste contexto, observa-se a realização dos processos fonológicos de apagamento das vogais postônicas não-finais e de alçamento das vogais [e] e [o] postônicas não-finais. Neste estudo, verificou-se que há (i) comportamento variável quanto ao processo de apagamento da vogal [o] e [e] postônica não-final (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.bra; pê.s[e].go ~ pés.go) e (ii) comportamento variável quanto ao processo de alçamento da vogal [o] e [e] postônica nãofinal (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.b[u].ra; pê.s[e].go ~ pê.s[i].go). Em outras palavras, podemos identificar as seguintes possibilidades: (1) abób[o]ra, abób[u]ra, abobra e (2) pêss[e]go, pêss[i]go, pêsgo. Como corpus de pesquisa, são utilizados: (i) dezenove inquéritos de fala espontânea retirados do Banco de Dados IBORUNA, resultado do Projeto ALIP - Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista (IBILCE/UNESP - FAPESP 03/08058-6); e (ii) dois experimentos elaborados para a análise de cunho fonológico. A análise é realizada segundo os princípios da Teoria da Variação e Mudança Linguística e das Fonologias não-lineares: Fonologia Métrica, Fonologia da Sílaba e Fonologia Autossegmental. Como um resultado, tem-se que o percentual de aplicação do apagamento das vogais postônicas não-finais é baixo: 8%. Já os percentuais de alçamento da vogal [e] postônica não-final são: (i) 59%, nos dados de fala espontânea; e (ii) 44%, nos dados de fala dirigida. A aplicação do processo de alçamento da vogal [o] postônica não-final apresentou altos índices de aplicação: (i) 62%, nos dados de fala espontânea; e (ii) 92%, nos dados de fala dirigida. Dos resultados estatísticos, obteve-se que as consoantes líquidas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This work describes the variable behavior of the non-final posttonic vowels in the names in the variety of the region of São José do Rio Preto, northwest of São Paulo State. In this context, there are the phonological processes of: (i) syncope of non-final posttonic vowels; and (ii) raising of the non-final posttonic vowels [e] and [o]. In this work, it is observed that (i) there is a variable behavior in relation to the process of syncope of the nonfinal posttonic vowels [o] and [e] (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.bra; pê.s[e].go ~ pés.go) and (ii) there is a variable behavior in relation to the process of vowel raising of the non-final posttonic [o] and [e] (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.b[u].ra; pê.s[e].go ~ pê.s[i].go). In other words, two possibilities can be identified: (i) abób[o]ra, abób[u]ra, abobra; and (ii) pêss[e]go, pêss[i]go, pêsgo. The corpus of this research is formed of: (i) nineteen interviews with spontaneous speech samples of the Banco de Dados Iboruna, a result of the ALIP Project - Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista (IBILCE/UNESP - FAPESP 03/08058-6); and (ii) two experiments elaborated for the phonological analysis. The analysis is made following the principles of the Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change and the nonlinear phonological models: Metrical Phonology, Syllable Phonology and Autosegmental Phonology. As a result, the percentage of application of the process of syncope in the non-final posttonic vowels is low: 8%. The percentages of vowel raising in the non-final posttonic vowel [e] are: (i) 59%, in the spontaneous speech data; and (ii) 44%, in the directed speech data. The application of the vowel raising of the non-final posttonic vowel [o] had the biggest rates: (i) 62%, in the spontaneous speech data; and (ii) 92%, in the directed speech data. From the statistical results, it is observed that the liquid consonants and the sibilants /s/ and /z/... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

(English) The dissertation explores the vowel system of Czech L3 Spanish, focusing on three facets of its architecture: vowel quality (following SLM by Flege 1995, 1999, 2003), vowel quantity and vocalic sequences between words. Preliminary studies (Čechová 2013, 2014) suggest that there might be some evidence for the Mechanism of Equivalence in Czech L3 Spanish, since the vowel spaces of both languages consist of the same categories, with different phonetic realizations. Hence, the more similar the sounds are, the harder it is to capture the relevant difference, necessary to attain native-like pronunciation. Vowel quantity, being traditionally associated with the phonological feature of length in Czech (Palková 1994), is not present in Spanish, and compensating for that property, some Czech speakers tend to pronounce accented syllables with extraordinarily longer durations. Finally, vowel sequences in Spanish are usually subjetct to resyllabification, whereas Czech prefers glottalization to keep morphemes of words separated. These predictions were tested in 22 university Czech students with advanced level of Spanish (C1-C1). Subsequent analysis revealed consistent inclination towards L1 in terms of vowel quality, in less extent in vowel quantity, and although the prevalecent strategy for majority...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-09-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:32:51Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ramos_ap_me_sjrp.pdf: 2019141 bytes, checksum: df387179f59f00ad3c7cbf4a3bb11b4c (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O presente trabalho descreve o comportamento variável das vogais postônicas nãofinais nos nomes na variedade da região de São José do Rio Preto, noroeste do Estado de São Paulo. Neste contexto, observa-se a realização dos processos fonológicos de apagamento das vogais postônicas não-finais e de alçamento das vogais [e] e [o] postônicas não-finais. Neste estudo, verificou-se que há (i) comportamento variável quanto ao processo de apagamento da vogal [o] e [e] postônica não-final (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.bra; pê.s[e].go ~ pés.go) e (ii) comportamento variável quanto ao processo de alçamento da vogal [o] e [e] postônica nãofinal (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.b[u].ra; pê.s[e].go ~ pê.s[i].go). Em outras palavras, podemos identificar as seguintes possibilidades: (1) abób[o]ra, abób[u]ra, abobra e (2) pêss[e]go, pêss[i]go, pêsgo. Como corpus de pesquisa, são utilizados: (i) dezenove inquéritos de fala espontânea retirados do Banco de Dados IBORUNA, resultado do Projeto ALIP – Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista (IBILCE/UNESP – FAPESP 03/08058-6); e (ii) dois experimentos elaborados para a análise de cunho fonológico. A análise é realizada segundo os princípios da Teoria da Variação e Mudança Linguística e das Fonologias não-lineares: Fonologia Métrica, Fonologia da Sílaba e Fonologia Autossegmental. Como um resultado, tem-se que o percentual de aplicação do apagamento das vogais postônicas não-finais é baixo: 8%. Já os percentuais de alçamento da vogal [e] postônica não-final são: (i) 59%, nos dados de fala espontânea; e (ii) 44%, nos dados de fala dirigida. A aplicação do processo de alçamento da vogal [o] postônica não-final apresentou altos índices de aplicação: (i) 62%, nos dados de fala espontânea; e (ii) 92%, nos dados de fala dirigida. Dos resultados estatísticos, obteve-se que as consoantes líquidas... / This work describes the variable behavior of the non-final posttonic vowels in the names in the variety of the region of São José do Rio Preto, northwest of São Paulo State. In this context, there are the phonological processes of: (i) syncope of non-final posttonic vowels; and (ii) raising of the non-final posttonic vowels [e] and [o]. In this work, it is observed that (i) there is a variable behavior in relation to the process of syncope of the nonfinal posttonic vowels [o] and [e] (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.bra; pê.s[e].go ~ pés.go) and (ii) there is a variable behavior in relation to the process of vowel raising of the non-final posttonic [o] and [e] (a.bó.b[o].ra ~ a.bó.b[u].ra; pê.s[e].go ~ pê.s[i].go). In other words, two possibilities can be identified: (i) abób[o]ra, abób[u]ra, abobra; and (ii) pêss[e]go, pêss[i]go, pêsgo. The corpus of this research is formed of: (i) nineteen interviews with spontaneous speech samples of the Banco de Dados Iboruna, a result of the ALIP Project - Amostra Lingüística do Interior Paulista (IBILCE/UNESP – FAPESP 03/08058-6); and (ii) two experiments elaborated for the phonological analysis. The analysis is made following the principles of the Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change and the nonlinear phonological models: Metrical Phonology, Syllable Phonology and Autosegmental Phonology. As a result, the percentage of application of the process of syncope in the non-final posttonic vowels is low: 8%. The percentages of vowel raising in the non-final posttonic vowel [e] are: (i) 59%, in the spontaneous speech data; and (ii) 44%, in the directed speech data. The application of the vowel raising of the non-final posttonic vowel [o] had the biggest rates: (i) 62%, in the spontaneous speech data; and (ii) 92%, in the directed speech data. From the statistical results, it is observed that the liquid consonants and the sibilants /s/ and /z/... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

<p dir="ltr">Comprehensibility refers to the degree of effort that a listener requires to understand a speaker’s utterance (Derwing & Munro, 1997; Munro & Derwing, 1995; Derwing & Munro, 2005). Previous studies on L2 pronunciation have found that segmental errors could affect comprehensibility (Derwing et al., 1998; Derwing & Munro, 1997; Isaacs & Thomson, 2020; Saito et al., 2017). However, this finding only indicates a correlation between the number of segmental errors and lower comprehensibility. It is still unclear what aspects of pronunciation L2 learners need to practice in order to improve the comprehensibility of their speech. This thesis proposes that the degree of acoustic contrast may play a role in determining comprehensibility. More specifically, it investigates the relation between Mandarin speakers’ acoustic contrast between tense and lax vowels in English (i.e., [i] and [ɪ], [u] and [ʊ]) and the perceived comprehensibility of their speech.</p><p dir="ltr">A sentence production task and a comprehensibility rating task were conducted. In the sentence production task, 20 Mandarin speakers and 10 English speakers read aloud English sentences containing tense and lax vowels and were audio-recorded. The acoustic measurements of the vowels were taken in order to compare Mandarin speakers’ acoustic realization of the tense and lax vowels with English speakers’ productions. In the comprehensibility rating task, 48 English speakers transcribed the sentences recorded during the sentence production task and rated the comprehensibility of the sentences. The comprehensibility ratings were tested for correlation with the number of transcription errors, the degree of spectral and durational contrasts between vowels, and the speakers’ US residency length, in order to investigate the relation between intelligibility errors and comprehensibility, between acoustic contrast and comprehensibility, and between US residency length and comprehensibility.</p><p dir="ltr">The results of the linear-mixed effect model indicated that spectral contrast between [u] - [ʊ], but not [i] - [ɪ], was significantly reduced in Mandarin speakers’ productions compared to the English speakers, suggesting that Mandarin speakers under-differentiated the back vowel pair. A correlation test using Kendall’s <i>tau</i> indicated a significant negative correlation between number of intelligibility errors and comprehensibility, suggesting that intelligibility errors decreased comprehensibility. A correlation test using Kendall’s <i>tau</i> indicated a significant positive correlation between the degree of spectral contrast and comprehensibility rating for sentences with semantically meaningful context, suggesting that increasing the contrast between tense and lax vowels could help increase the comprehensibility of speech. Finally, a correlation test using Kendall’s <i>tau</i><i> </i>indicated no significant correlation between US residency length and comprehensibility, meaning that the relation between residency length and comprehensibility was not confirmed.</p><p dir="ltr">To sum up, acoustic contrast could be one of the contributors to speech comprehensibility. Therefore, directing English L2 learners to focus on increasing the acoustic distance between contrasting vowels could prove a fruitful strategy for improving the comprehensibility of L2 speech.</p>

This dissertation is an analysis of the segmental phonology of the Shangani language as spoken in the South Eastern parts of Zimbabwe. It starts by presenting the language situation in Zimbabwe and comparing the language’s status in Zimbabwe with that of its sister varieties in South Africa where it is referred to as Tsonga and in Mozambique where it is referred to as XiChangana or Changana. The dissertation is based on data collected from the speakers of Shangani using a variety of research techniques. The dissertation identifies and characterizes the language’s distinctive phonemes using the minimal pair and set tests. It presents the language’s consonants, which include aspirated, breathy-voiced, pre-nasalized, labialized and palatalized consonants. It shows that in Shangani, voiceless consonants cannot be pre-nasalized and that there is an incompatibility between that labio-velar glide /w/ and most labial consonants excpt /m/. The phonemes are analysed using Chomsky and Halle’s (1968) distinctive feature theory. The study uses Clements and Keyser’s (1983) CV phonology of the syllable structure to analyse the language’s syllable structure. The language’s canonical syllable structure is CV. It is also shown that consonant clusters are gaining their way into the language through borrowing from English, Afrikaans and other languages that have consonant clusters in their inventories. Onsetless Vs are marginally attested word-initially. In agent nouns, VV sequences are in most cases retained. These sequences are not analysed as diphthongs since they occupy different V slots on the syllable tier. The second vowel in the sequence is the onsetless syllable. Affricates, NCs, Cws and Cjs are presented as unitary segments that occupy a single C slot of the CV tier. Phonological processes that are attested in the language are also presented. Secondary articulation, vowel deletion, feature spreading, vowel coalescence and nasalization are shown to be the most common phonological process in the language. Since Shangani has the CV syllable typology, most of the phonological processes are there to resolve hiatus that would have been induced by suffixation of vowel commencing stems or suffixes to vowel final prefixes or stems. The notion of domains is shown to be a diagnostic tool for identifying a process in a hiatus situation. The study shows that vowel deletion is the least preferred strategy when secondary articulation, feature spreading, vowel coalescence have been blocked by some constraints like syllable structure processes or the language’s phonotactics / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

This dissertation is an analysis of the segmental phonology of the Shangani language as spoken in the South Eastern parts of Zimbabwe. It starts by presenting the language situation in Zimbabwe and comparing the language’s status in Zimbabwe with that of its sister varieties in South Africa where it is referred to as Tsonga and in Mozambique where it is referred to as XiChangana or Changana. The dissertation is based on data collected from the speakers of Shangani using a variety of research techniques. The dissertation identifies and characterizes the language’s distinctive phonemes using the minimal pair and set tests. It presents the language’s consonants, which include aspirated, breathy-voiced, pre-nasalized, labialized and palatalized consonants. It shows that in Shangani, voiceless consonants cannot be pre-nasalized and that there is an incompatibility between that labio-velar glide /w/ and most labial consonants excpt /m/. The phonemes are analysed using Chomsky and Halle’s (1968) distinctive feature theory. The study uses Clements and Keyser’s (1983) CV phonology of the syllable structure to analyse the language’s syllable structure. The language’s canonical syllable structure is CV. It is also shown that consonant clusters are gaining their way into the language through borrowing from English, Afrikaans and other languages that have consonant clusters in their inventories. Onsetless Vs are marginally attested word-initially. In agent nouns, VV sequences are in most cases retained. These sequences are not analysed as diphthongs since they occupy different V slots on the syllable tier. The second vowel in the sequence is the onsetless syllable. Affricates, NCs, Cws and Cjs are presented as unitary segments that occupy a single C slot of the CV tier. Phonological processes that are attested in the language are also presented. Secondary articulation, vowel deletion, feature spreading, vowel coalescence and nasalization are shown to be the most common phonological process in the language. Since Shangani has the CV syllable typology, most of the phonological processes are there to resolve hiatus that would have been induced by suffixation of vowel commencing stems or suffixes to vowel final prefixes or stems. The notion of domains is shown to be a diagnostic tool for identifying a process in a hiatus situation. The study shows that vowel deletion is the least preferred strategy when secondary articulation, feature spreading, vowel coalescence have been blocked by some constraints like syllable structure processes or the language’s phonotactics / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:27:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 jones.pdf: 835078 bytes, checksum: bdb7befe57a0d93f9b20909b393fe570 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-27 / This thesis aims to investigate the perception that native speakers have of Brazilian Portuguese pretonic mid vowels /e/ and /o/ in pretonic position on words in context for harmony and vowel raising processes. In creating the identification test, the audio files stimulus were edited and normalized in the Praat software (BOERSMA; WEENINK, 2012) and presented to the informants in the form of a perception test using the TP software (RAUBER; RATO; KLUGE; SANTOS; FIGUEIREDO, 2012). In this study, 40 informants participated, being 20 females and 20 males, aged between 18 and 30 years old, born in the city of Pelotas, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with an ongoing or completed undergraduate degree. The results were statistically analyzed in the IBM SPSS software version 20.0. The statistical analysis showed that the perception of pretonic mid vowels [e] and [o] was more accurate than the perception of pretonic high vowels [i] and [u], resulting from the harmony and vowel raising processes. Considering a possible relationship between the perception of the vowels and the use of phonological processes, this study has been based on the theory of the Model of L1 Processing (BOERSMA, 2007), which allowed to show the interaction of faith and struct constraints with cue constrains through, respectively, the Phonological Forms of Surface and Underlying and the Phonetic Form, linking Phonetics and Phonology / A presente dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a percepção que os falantes nativos têm das vogais médias pretônicas do Português Brasileiro /e/ e /o/ em posição pretônica em palavras com o contexto para os processos de harmonia e de alçamento vocálico. Na formulação do teste de identificação, os arquivos de áudio estímulos foram editados e normalizados no software Praat (BOERSMA; WEENINK, 2012) e apresentados aos informantes em forma de um teste de percepção no software TP (RAUBER; RATO; KLUGE; SANTOS; FIGUEIREDO, 2012). Participaram desta pesquisa 40 informantes, sendo 20 do sexo feminino e 20 do sexo masculino, com idade entre 18 e 30 anos e com ensino superior completo ou em andamento, nascidos no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, na cidade de Pelotas. Os resultados foram analisados estatisticamente no software IBM SPSS versão 20.0. A análise estatística revelou que a percepção das vogais médias pretônicas [e] e [o] foi mais acurada do que a percepção das vogais altas pretônicas [i] e [u], resultantes dos processos de harmonia e de alçamento vocálico. Considerando-se uma possível relação entre a percepção de vogais e o emprego dos processos fonológicos, este trabalho teve como fundamento teórico o Modelo de Processamento de L1 (BOERSMA, 2007), o qual permitiu mostrar a interação de restrições de fidelidade e de estrutura com restrições de pista por meio, respectivamente, das Formas Fonológicas de Superfície e Subjacente e da Forma Fonética, vinculando Fonética e Fonologia